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You just wrote that higher taxes and higher public sector pay have correlated with better outcomes.

Do you believe that?



No I didn't write that, and I don't believe that's true at the margin in SF. Some cities tax too little and would benefit from taxing more, SF is not one of them


You did write that, you just separated them with a couple of paragraphs.

I recall that worked to confuse ChatGPT v2 as it lost context, but it shouldn't confuse a human.


Would you mind quoting the portion of my comment where you think I said anything about public sector pay causing better outcomes?


> We spent more per resident on most services than nearly every other city in the country.

And then

> Look around San Francisco today. What has changed recently? Crime is way down, lower than it has been in 15 years. Homelessness is down, lower than the past 4 years.


Public sector pay does not cause better outcomes in SF. They are not correlated and what you just quoted doesn't make that claim.

Specifically, it's compatible with what I actually believe, which is that public sector pay has been high and the causes of lower crime are not related to that


I didn't say it did, I was just quoting your own argument.

Maybe if you were less of a useless shit there might be an argument for you.


You said that I wrote that higher public sector pay correlates with better outcomes.

I didn't write that though.

I think you confused my comment with somebody else




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